 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 sayfa
...his * For an account of this book, fbc the Life of Dr. Jobn/oat by the Editor. VOL. IX. F f cataracts cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the...inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or bleft with fpontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceafing... | |
 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 520 sayfa
...life ; and to have confulted his fenfes not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or bleffed with fpontaneous feba cundity, ii DR JOHNSON'S PREFACE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 sayfa
..." not his imagination. He meets with no bafi" lifks, that deftroy with their eyes; his cro" codiles devour their prey, without tears ; and " his cataracts...inhabitants. The ** reader will here find no regions curfed with ** irremediable barrenaefs, or blefied with fpon" taneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sayfa
...Segued. ' In the original, Zeila. devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants'. '...sunshine ; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sayfa
...Lobo s Voyage to Abyssinia. 103 devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants'. '...sunshine ; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 sayfa
...have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks...prey without tears, and his, cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 sayfa
...described things as he saw them ; to have " copied nature from the life ; and to have con" suited his senses, not his imagination. He " meets with no basilisks,...from the " rock, without deafening the neighbouring in" habitants. The reader will here find no re" gions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or " blessed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sayfa
...their eyes; his * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr JOHNION, by the Editor. Vot. II. A a crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his...no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 sayfa
...have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 sayfa
...senses, not * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr. Johnson pre-. fixed to this edition. liis imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy...sunshine ; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all gcnse of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues ; here are no Hottentots... | |
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He appears by bis modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles... 
